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The Smoke-Scented Girl

by Melissa McShane

Magician Evon Lorantis makes a living inventing spells to defend his country against the ruthless warlord intent on conquering it. When he learns of a series of mysterious, powerful fires, he sets out to find the magician responsible, hoping to get her to turn her talent toward the war. But the young woman he discovers is nothing like he expected, and soon Evon is caught up in a mystery a thousand years old, where myth and magic meet, and if he can't find a solution, it will mean the destruction... more

Accidental Child

by Karen Douglass

Survivors of disastrous climate change have created a community in an old shopping mall, where clan hierarchy determines work, allocates food and controls the right to bear children. Rose Donahue falls through time into this arid future and must adapt or risk death trying to return to her former life where she had a lover, a young daughter and a beagle named Otis.

Playlist of the Ancient Dead

by Aaron Frale

A door materialized in a drab brick building for the unwitting post-college student Caroline. A washed up government spook named Murphy had been waiting for the door to arrive for many years. He had lost someone inside when the door first appeared and knew that Caroline was the key to unlocking the secrets within. What he didn't account for in his carefully laid out plan was the building had an agenda of its own.

The Coming of the Anti-Christ

by Vincent Taylor

ONCE UPON A ZOMBIE

by Billy Phillips & Jenny Nissenson

Once Upon a Zombie—Book One: The Color of Fear, features fourteen-year-old Caitlin Fletcher who suffers from agoraphobia and other debilitating anxieties. Caitlin is forced to confront the root of her phobias when she is pulled into the depths of a fairy tale world rapidly decaying into a zombie wasteland.

Never Forgotten

by Kelly Risser

How can one day go so very wrong? One minute Meara Quinn is making plans for how she will spend the summer before her senior year and the next she's finding out that her mother's cancer has returned and they are moving away from the only home she's ever known.

Now every day is a struggle as Meara tries to cope with her mother's illness, being forced to move to another country to live with grandparents--whom she thought disowned her mother--and having weird visions of a father who was absen... more

Back to Eden, The Eco-Adventures of Adam and Eve

by Luigi Enrico Pietra d'Oro

In which Adam and Eve leave the Garden in a Humvee brought by a human serpent who traveled back in time to deliver the knowledge of good and evil which is necessary for humans to use for profit and manipulation. Together with other time-traveling, biblical characters, the race is on to save the planet from those who would hasten in the end of days. Crazy, but more reasonable than current beliefs.

Song of the Sea Spirit

by K.C. May

For untold centuries, the Spirit Stones have hummed a series of mysterious tones whose meanings were long forgotten. Now, a girl arrives with a flute and a book--keys to understanding the tones and the ancient knowledge locked within. When she witnesses a heinous crime, she begins a quest to bring the culprit to justice, but the deeper she probes, the more she learns that greed and corruption hold benevolence hostage.

Time and Tithe

by LJ Cohen

Seven Tales for the Seven Dark Seas

by Harold C. Morris

Written in the exacting, masculine style of the classic storytellers of yesteryear this fiction collection explores the dark side of the maritime world—as if Herman Melville had written for Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone.

TABOO ISLAND

The narrator of this short novel is a professor of physical anthropology at a Canadian University. He comes to take a professional interest in the legendary Bigfoot or Sasquatch, said to inhabit his region. With his close female friend... more

Salem's Vengeance

by Aaron Galvin

Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kelly never expected to meet the Devil’s daughter. She only sought innocent dancing in the moonlight, not a coven entranced by their dark priestess. When her friends partake of a powder meant to conjure spirits—and the results go horribly awry—Sarah is forced to make a choice. To keep their secret risks her own damnation, but to condemn them may invoke the accusing remnants of Salem to rise again.

Future Run

by Catharine Bramkamp

Third in the Future Girls Series - Future Run is a Mad Max run across the barren Mid-kingdom to reach California in time - but in time for what?

Half Breed Queen (The Skatia Narratives Book 1)

by LA Hendricks

Devastating tragedy puts 14-year-old high school freshman Marla Owens, on a fast-paced journey of survival, revival and coming of age. Driven by a force she can't begin to understand and a burning need to find out the truth, she heads toward her mother’s home in North Dakota. She soon learns more about herself and her family than she could have ever imagined — her mother was royal heir to the powerful Skatian throne! And now the Skatian people need her to protect their world from those who wish ... more

Dry Land

by Jennifer Anne Seidler

When mankind toys with nature, nature fights back. Astronaut Ted "Shakespeare" Hardiston is setting off on the adventure of a lifetime -- for the rest of his life. He reluctantly leaves behind his wife, an android/human hybrid, to command the first base on the surface of the moon. Ted and the crew of Space Shuttle Liberty complete their mission, gifting the Moon with gravity and an atmosphere. In doing so, they cause mass destruction on the Earth below. By Ted's side during this... more

Fog (1/2986)

by Annelie Wendeberg

Micka's world is ruled by terror. Her friends are dying. All she can do is aim, fire, reload. "The world before me is round. Not round as in sphere-round, but as in circular-round, a dotted cross stamped on its milky surface. Green is the only colour glimmering atop the greyscale. Green is where my bullets will go. Black and green is how blood looks when it spills. Even the scents of the forest are black and green. Black like the soil; green like the foliage. The white is the fog. The Fo... more

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